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Monday, July 27, 2015

The recent ban of eggs in the midday meals to school children by Madhya Pradesh opens
up questions on how as a society we solve some of the fundamental problems in
India.Most of the decision making in
the legislature, bureaucracy, activist groups, and media, is usually done by
the elite of India, who are most often well off.And the challenges faced by the elite in
India closely resemble the challenges experienced by the people living in the
developed world.And in most cases, like
in deciding the nature of food and diet for nutritional purposes, those
challenges are exactly reversed between developed and underdeveloped countries,
thereby putting the elite in India squarely incapable of solving the problems
of the poor.

Saturday, July 25, 2015

If you have
traveled the world as an Indian, you will notice one thing about the whole world
that is so unlike India – you would realize that all other cultures on the
planet eat some kind of meat in their regular diet.You
will stumble upon the great discovery that India is the only country on the
planet which has highest percentage of vegetarians, where vegetarianism is
proudly worn as badge of virtue and value.Only in India would you see people preferring the vegetarian diet
overwhelmingly, wherein even the non-vegetarian communities tend to consume mostly
the vegetarian food with paltry consumption of meat one or two meals per week.

Upon this
greatest discovery of your lifetime you may go through a debate, if you happen
to have some curiosity that your mental faculties have endowed you with.And if you happen to be one of those Indians
who grew up believing India is the greatest country on the planet and it is
your mission to tell the whole world how great it is, like for example, if you
happen to be Modi bhakt, you would come to the same conclusion which many other
have come to – that is – India is indeed the greatest country on the planet to
have found the virtue of vegetarianism thousands of years ago, and therefore it
makes more sense now to tell the whole world the greatness of vegetarianism,
how you are kind to animals, especially the street roaming cows, and how you
now hold yourself high morally and ethically.Like many other Hinduphiles, you will ignore the complicated topics,
such as dietary habits of various castes, and instead focus only on the virtues
of the vegetarian diet.

Friday, July 17, 2015

I wrote my first blog post on 02 February 2006 - that’s more
than nine years ago. And in these nine
years I wrote 540 articles, averaging nearly 60 per year – or 5 per month. Of those nine years, the most prolific one
was 2007 when I wrote 110 articles. And
in year 2014, I wrote only six.

The last one is from 23 July 2014 – that’s almost a year
ago.

I went through some rough period in life and I guess that’s the
reason why I could not make myself write anything. And in the recent few weeks I just could not
muster anything even when I wanted to – call it a writer’s block.

So, I thought I should just go on a freewheeling mode and get
started, and hence this post.

Modi is in power. The
unthinkable has happened. The Congress
got decimated – Indians rejected Rahul Baba and UPA III overwhelmingly. And State of Telangana got formed.

'Make in India' is the theme, so is the agenda to transform
India into Hindustan.